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sure fear would stop you in your
Man has a well-developed in- tracks. However, if a small child
built sense of justice not evi- slipped into the freezing water
dent in animals. Does this and began to drown, love would
represent an inexplicable gap push away your fears and you
between man and chimpan- would no doubt jump without
zee, or a Man’s capacity to re- hesitation. Perfect love would
late to his Creator?
overcome fear.
The sense of and yearning for
justice is what separates man- That’s what happens when we
kind from the beasts. We have see the terrible danger awaiting
that because we are unique in lost sinners. If they die in their
creation. We are made in the im- sins, they will justly end up in
age of God.
a terrible place called “Hell.” If
the love of God dwells in us we
You say that fear can alter- shouldn’t be fearful to jump into
natively be called ‘the will to the icy waters of evangelism.
live’. That will to live needs to
be cancelled to eliminate fear. Your parachute comparison is
Japanese religion and some an astounding lesson in logMuslims train their young men ic. What is the difference bein kamakazi methodology. It tween using logic to discover
could be said they have over- truth and using logic to defend
come the fear of death. Is this an argument? Which is more
like the biblical teaching about common and why?
overcoming the fear of death? The logic of Christianity boils
If I get into an elevator on the down to one rhetorical question:
80th floor of the Empire State “What shall it profit a man if he
Building and feel fear, it shows shall gain the whole world and
that I lack faith. But if I have com- lose his own soul?” The simpliciplete faith in the elevator, there ty and logic of that statement will
will be no fear.
only be realized by many, on the
Day of Judgment.
Those who completely trust God
and His promises will have no Oh Ray, I loved your use of
fear in the face of death.
Psalm 139 as a celebration of
new birth. It shows how very
It’s not a matter of conditioning, much alive are the verses of
as a Japanese or Muslim soldier the Bible – like a laser beam.
in training.
How were you first impacted
by the power of scripture, and
It’s rather a simple choice to trust also how did you most reGod’s promises without doubt- cently become devastated (in
ing. The trust isn’t misguided, a good sense) by that power?
and will never be disappointed.
No human being can begin to
comprehend or describe the
The Bible says that perfect power and the majesty of God.
love overcomes fear. How do Words like “brilliant,” “genius,”
you see that?
“amazing,” and “awesome” all
If I asked you to jump off a 20- fall woefully short. Since my confoot cliff into ice-filled water, I’m version, I have been speechless

about the genius of God seen
in creation. When I collect eggs
from our chickens, I ask how it is
that God can create dumb birds
who the ability to daily produce
delicious hygienically sealed
packages from our dinner
scraps? We often pair the words
“praise and worship” when they
are poles apart. Praise can be
easily expressed, but worship is
silent awe. Singing birds, fruitbearing trees, the blueness of
the sky, the warmth of the sun,
the communication expressed
in a human or even a dog’s eye,
and a million other things send
me into unspeakable awe at the
power of God.
Ray, you challenge every
Christian leader to train themselves for presenting these
powerful truths. How urgently do you see these present
times and this task? What is
the focus of the training program you offer?
Every minute 100 people die.
Every hour, 6,000 human beings
are swallow by death. There is a
terrible urgency, and one great
hindrance to our reaching out to
this world, is fear. We teach people how to overcome the fear we
all have that so easily paralyzes
us, when it comes to sharing our
faith.
Thank you Ray Comfort. I pray
many will become involved in
effective use and distribution of
this very powerful set of tools. I
see it as essential viewing the
world over where reason is assigned priority as a thought process. AtheistMovie.com is the
place to look for details. I pray
our Father’s exponential blessing on its use.